Harvard’s Project Zero has created learning routines based on research, helping teachers garner a more thorough thinking process from students. See, Think, Wonder, is one such routine that engages students in visual multimedia such as pictures or videos. This concept can easily be delivered using Socrative: design an image-based quiz focussing on these 3 questions:…
The infamous 5Ws and H have been an integral part of journalism, storytelling, and an uncountable number of TV police dramas (Law and Order being the best, of course). For years this structure has been helping students ask targeted questions as they dig deeper into factual information and uncover truths. In the 21st century, this…
The value of multiple choice in education has been a topic of debate since its invention in the beginning of the 20th century. Initially, the US army constructed this type of assessment as a means for determining intelligence for recruitment (Ramirez, 2013). Provided this social validity, the test quickly spread to education and industry sectors,…
In third grade, my classmates and I brought a wide range of items to school that signified the time in which we were living. There was a black Sony walkman with padded headphones, a GI Joe figure, a Hartford Courant newspaper, a copy of Shel Silverstein’s poem “Messy Room” and a video cassette of Goonies….